Delhi-based filmmaker Shaunak Sen's documentary 'All That Breathes' premiered in the Special Screening segment at the ongoing Cannes Film Festival. According to the film's official Instagram page, the director posed for the shutterbugs at the premiere with Aman Mann and Teddy Leifer as well as Charlotte Much Bengsten, Nadeem Shehzad, Mohammad Saad, Salik Rehman and Florrie Priest.
'All That Breathes', which won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, follows the lives of siblings Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad who, working out of their derelict basement in Wazirabad, a village in Delhi, rescue and treat injured birds, especially the Black Kites.
The 90-minute film is Sen's second directorial after the acclaimed 2016 'Cities of Sleep', which was about the homeless scouting for places to sleep in the capital. 'All That Breathes' was acquired by a US-based cable network. After its release in the US late this year, the documentary will debut on the streaming service in 2023.
'All That Breathes' and Pratham Khurana's short film 'Nauha' in Le Cinef (a competition for film schools) are India's only cinematic representation at the main festival.
